UK is Fucked
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- Nairn1
"Four mega-trends that condemn the West to irreversible decline"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news…
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- "The West is fucked"Nairn
- If we just get back into flag worship, we'll be good.PhanLo
- "Just blame the woke cunts" says Right wing cuntBluejam
- So ‘right’ and ‘woke’ are now a slurs. Idiotic.Morning_star
- 'Cunt' is not though, eh?
Last woke paragraph aside, I thought he had points, whether I wish to agree with them or not.Nairn - As, I think - raf, pointed out here recently - the reduction of traditional/ Xtian values across society will have significant effects on population growth, etcNairn
- Now, I'm anti-population growth, so this suits me fine. But the rest of the world might not care about that, so what does that then mean and imply?Nairn
- Nairn0
This is interesting, and probably answers a question I've had about how on Earth a cricket club somewhat local to my house is able to afford/hold on to a large green field right in the centre of one of the more valuable parts of North London.
https://www.theguardian.com/poli…
" Enfield [...] council receives just £13,500 from Enfield golf club each year to rent its 39-hectare golf course"
- Whoops - gist of article is 'London's Golf Courses could house 300k people'Nairn
- I get the point but they should be looking at how to get more, and more diverse, people using the courses, rather than building on them.Fax_Benson
- It's a healthy pastime on green space in a polluted city. London's empty houses must be able to house a big chunk of that 300k.Fax_Benson
- Oh, I don't mean to pave over them all - but when you read the usage comparison in the article of 26k people vs 314 for the same amount of space.. well.Nairn
- I grew up in a golfing family, so have some appreciation of it, but after 20 years here, I'm still surprised when I see someone around with a golf bag...Nairn
- ..it's like "how far are you going to have to travel for a game?" well, apparently not very far at all.Nairn
- yeah, it's an issue and should be looked at. I'd rather make the game more accessible and claw back brownfield from even richer fuckers.Fax_Benson
- as an ex-golfer I can see that the idea has some appeal, given lots of golfers are twats.Fax_Benson
- Fuckit, this has made me want to go up to the Pitch & Putt in AllyPally this weekend, haha. That's about my level these days - not that I was ever much good...Nairn
- the driving range at Greenwich is quite good if you just want to whack some balls - https://greenwichpen…Fax_Benson
- Ooh, thanks for the tip! AllyPally's a drunken stagger away for the weekend though.. :)Nairn
- ugh, typical of the guardian urbanistas, "let's pave over all the green spaces". so short sighted.hans_glib
- It makes the point of using it as parkland too, but I'm not sure a golf course counts as something to get all uptight about, given how few use themNairn
- They also tend to be barren deserts, so aesthetically green but not environmentally green spaces.Nairn
- https://www.pushkin.…Hayzilla
- if you don't like golf and you're walking on a golf course, you're asking for disappointment.Fax_Benson
- and the spittling rage of middle-aged white guys screaming FFFORE! FUCKING FORE!Nairn
- Also, links courses and posh over-engineered Spanish courses can be quite nice to walk around... .Valderrama's quite pretty :)Nairn
- Fax_Benson1
- https://www.youtube.…Bluejam
- ffsfadein11
- happening everywhere, post-brexit. Rather than build a hospital, just redefine what a hospital is. Redefine what a customs check is. What objective reality isFax_Benson
- Bluejam1
- haha. Is Gove all coked up again?Ianbolton
- The club owner said he forced his way in hahahahaPhanLo
- https://www.instagra…PhanLo
- PhanLo0
- Uncanny, It took a few seconds. :)Morning_star
- who is it, then?Nairn
- it's Dale WintonBluejam
- who he?hans_glib
- Right you were joking - I checked, lol at me. I'd also entirely forgotten that he'd died.Nairn
- Gay bloke who lives in a trailer park. (UK Gogglebox)Brabo_Brabo
- Nairn0
"As part of its goal to make the UK the “safest place in the world to be online”, government’s draft Online Safety Bill includes provisions which will mandate age verification processes onto all sites, services, or applications offering user-to-user content or communication which can be accessed in the UK."
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/…
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- Hello dark webAQUTE
- BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!face_melter
- I for one welcome our new insect overlords.Hayzilla
- The hubris of these pillocks to think they could even pull this off is bewilder.. no, it's not bewildering. It's just fucking stupid.Nairn
- neverscared7
- MET Police making the Keystone Kops look respectable ... what a fucking shitshowBluejam
- Mental.Brabo_Brabo
- Chaotic. Every copper should be, at least, a bjj blue belt.Brabo_Brabo
- fuckinfunkin cuntmilfhunter
- Aaaaand that’s why they don’t have guns. Can you fucking imagine.Morning_star
- blow job blue belt? wat?
It would certainly be crowd-calming measure, I guess.Nairn - that girl yanked the polly man lolAQUTE
- New World Order is so organised. LolszzzzzPhanLo
- Ugh! I think it’s “fair” that cops don’t use guns but basically just brawl with the protesters. I mean, unless someone pulls put a knife or sthn (?)maquito
- And, I see a guy with a yellow badge at 0:05, and plenty of fred perry shirts. I don’t think I understand anything anymore.maquito
- What is going on here? I am very confused.Longcopylover
- they're only cops with sticks, just fucking lay into them.face_melter
- Haha, says the effette wee chud.Brabo_Brabo
- get back under your fucking rock, you mewling cunt.face_melter
- Bluejam2
- We aint rejoining. Get over it.Brabo_Brabo
- https://i.imgur.com/…Bluejam
- It took 11 years for them to come up with the idea of raising National Insurance. Brilliant.Fax_Benson
- Fax_Benson4
According to Andrew Whitaker, planning director of the Home Builders Federation, these newbuild houses are what people want.
“If you ask kids to draw a house, they’ll draw the Play School house, with a door in the middle, windows each side, and a pitched roof”
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/st…
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- Those places are hellscapes. Folk already parked on the pavement because the roads aren't wide enough.PhanLo
- i live in a new build. the rooms are small, ceilings low, luckily we have a 2 car drive. garage wont fit a car in. no storage at all in the housetrooperbill
- the whole thing is so depressing. Cabe could have been a great start and attracted architects back to mass / public house buildingFax_Benson
- It's really short term thinking. Good for the developers, but they never help improve the infrastructure around the sites, jst more congestion, lack of servicesPhanLo
- ‘We design houses like children” is an odd flexscarabin
- Same with all the grim, and highly expensive, blocks of flats going up across London. Cheaply built with shit generic brick cladding applied.Nairn
- I used to work with an Italian architect, just moved to the UK. Asked me "Why do you design your new houses to look like old ones? Why not create new designs?"BaskerviIle
- u can hear le corbusier from the grand beyond crying over this mess...neverscared
- To be fair it might be a reaction against the horrible modernist tower blocks built in the 60s and 70s. Although I hate this style too.Chimp
- My dad used to finishing joinery on places like these and the new 'luxury flats' he said they were built to just meet the standards, just barely.PhanLo
- The room sizes are like a packet of sweets from B&M's, it seems a good price until you get home and realise it's 2/3rds the size of a normal bag of sweets.PhanLo
- We just bought a house in UK. The new builds wer strange. Really not what we wanted. Small rooms, tiny gardens, looked over, expensive, cars parked everywhere.Hayzilla
- PhanLo5
- She's all about raisin taxes ;)BaskerviIle
- haha, nice.Fax_Benson
- And sadly people will still vote for them.Chimp
- LOL raisinMrT
- and every paper reporting NI going from 12% to 13.5% is a 1.25% increase :-| that's nearly 10% dumb motherfuckerskingsteven
- the working class are being finacially grapedIanbolton
- Well Zarah, that would indicate business growth, which is a good thing. The spin used to imply that the billionaires are swimming, Scrooge my duck style in...Morning_star
- ...pools of cash relies on the ignorance and faux outrage of Uber socialist web warriors. Liars attract the gullible.Morning_star
- it's a disagreement between chasing up corporation tax or raising NI so the differentiation is entirely relevant. the latter harms all business (large or small)kingsteven
- No it’s not. Every single person in the UK has had the opportunity to benefit directly from the governments spending. Whether furlough, nhs care, or the...Morning_star
- ...vaccine. A small contribution to the costs of this, by everyone, is fair. CorporationTax is a nightmare and individual circumstances apply to each business...Morning_star
- ...and therefore not an efficient place to start (although I do agree it should be addressed)Morning_star
- well, she's not stupid: suggesting that billionaires swim in money... she's illustrating the reason for the alternative proposed by a majority in parliamentkingsteven
- the money that people will loose (i think avg. £380 p/a) will hurt the economy more than taxing those who profited most. boris cares about neither of coursekingsteven
- What she says is stupid. ‘Billionaires’ means nothing, it’s virtue signal to the ignorant left who believe that a billionaires money is liquid. Unlike the...Morning_star
- ...the reality: shares, capital assets, businesses, international tax burdens, territorial and business cash flow, etc etc.Morning_star
- Will someone think of the billionaires :-(PhanLo
- in your own words "that would indicate business growth" - most businesses are not publicly traded. it is a disproportionate transfer of wealth facilitated by akingsteven
- public health emergency. your amazon shares may have made you a few grand but a few people have made billions. it is morally unjustifiable.kingsteven
- Just need to pay their taxes or it's https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Love how candice owen said 90% of all taxes are paid by the wealthy. No fucking shit. And how many people are not wealthy? Like, 90% of people?Ianbolton
- Bluejam2
- https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- Meh, there's just Northerners, who cares?Nairn
- Bluejam1
- Is it an intentional joke that the picture is of Dominic Raab? :)BaskerviIle
- Nairn1
https://twitter.com/GermanEmbass…
So good that we sold Pilkington to a Japanese company all those years ago... .